DLA Piper has announced its merger with Czech law firm Haskovcova&Co, as of 1 September 2014. The merger will result in a total of two partners and seven lawyers joining the Prague office. Haskovcova&Co’s former managing partner, Thu Nga Haškovcová, who has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, real estate, project financing and general corporate […]
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer’s dispute resolution head is recruiting a new global leadership team responsible for project management and could lure an in-house contact to take overall responsibility for the group. Dispute resolution head Christopher Pugh will hire around six new project managers with potential candidates coming from within the firm as well as from in-house […]
Global infrastructure giant Balfour Beatty might turn to Pinsent Masons on its ‘business as usual’ work , but when it comes to major M&A deals, the business is prepared to pull out the big guns. For the $1.24bn sell-off of its US professional services division Parsons Brinckerhoff to Canada’s WSP Group, Balfour Beatty turned to […]
DWF is ramping up its agile working capabilities with a raft of initiatives kick-started by its move last Monday into London’s Walkie Talkie building (19 May 2014). Among the moves the firm is implementing is an increased focus on paperless working, featuring matter-specific scanning; a deal with Canon to allow lawyers to print office-specific headed […]
Stowe Family Law has new owners after being bought by Bahrain-headquartered private equity house Investcorp from Livingbridge for an undisclosed sum. It is Investcorp’s first foray into the legal sector. Livingbridge acquired the divorce-focused firm in 2017, after which it went on a huge expansion drive, opening more than 50 new offices across the UK […]
One of A&O Shearman’s recently hired lateral partners has resigned following a drink-driving conviction. Months since joining the newly merged firm, structured finance partner John Goldfinch has left A&O Shearman in response to being stopped by police in April. According to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Goldfinch pled guilty to drink driving at Southampton Magistrates’ […]
Clyde & Co has transformed all its corporate loan facilities into sustainability-linked loans, providing a financial incentive to achieve its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. The firm first switched its credit facility with Barclays to a sustainability-linked credit facility in May 2023, which means the interest rate changes depending on whether or not Clydes meets […]
It has been a bumper year for the UK’s top 100 law firms, with 44 posting double-digit growth – the highest since before the global financial crisis. A further four firms (Macfarlanes, TLT, Weightmans and Birketts) increased revenue despite a truncated year due to the Government’s basis period reforms. And if we take the five-year […]
DAC Beachcroft (DACB) has launched its second office in Asia Pacific. DACB will form an association with the newly-created CK Lee & Co, a Hong Kong firm that will ensure DACB’s clients can access legal advice internationally and in Hong Kong. The firm will be led by Kelvin Lee who was previously a partner at […]
This report contains: a ranking of the top 30 global law firms in Asia-Pacific and California by the number of partners. an analysis of the regional breakdown within California and jurisdictional breakdown within the Asia-Pacific based on lawyer and partner headcount. Interactive dashboards with firm specific data.
This report contains: an overview of the UK corporate market in 2023 and the positive shift in mood among lawyers at top corporate practices ranking of the top 50 City firms based on UK corporate revenue, highlighting those achieving significant growth insight into firms’ strategic plans for its UK corporate group over the next five years
This report contains: A history of the dominance of the magic circle sets an analysis of the two challengers to the magic circle a breakdown of the sets’ activity at the commercial court over the years
This report includes: an analysis of 18 European 100 firms that have seen new managing partners since the start of 2023 a consultant’s top tips for an MP-t0-be an overview of the trends in the European 100 leadership selection
This dashboard: contains an overview of the claims at a selection of courts in the UK. allows you to compare activity at the courts in Q2 2024 against Q2 2023.
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The Brits are back. We don’t mean the annual popular music jamboree at which microphones are dropped, singers’ bums are bared and popstars challenge each other to punch-ups. We mean UK-headquartered firms and their financial fortunes. For years, the contrast with their oppos from across the Atlantic, most of which have been beavering away driving […]
Newly-qualified (NQ) lawyers have seen salary levels soar over the last decade. In 2014, a fresh-faced Clifford Chance lawyer could earn £67,500; that figure reached £150,000 this summer. It is US firms that have inflated the pot with constant base raises that align London and New York operations. But the ripples spread outwards. When Quinn […]
Eversheds partners aren’t really in the business of throwing curveballs. This week, partners in the International LLP – that’s everything outside the US – cemented Keith Froud as Lee Ranson’s chief executive successor in an uncontested election. We’d have stopped taking bets on this one years ago, you could see it coming a mile off. […]
The Higher Education sector is in big trouble. As we reported last month, universities are struggling to fill places on their undergraduate courses – not least for law degrees. Many are in financial distress. Tuition fees for home students have been capped at £9,250 since 2017 and are falling well behind what is profitable, but […]
Stowe Family Law has new owners after being bought by Bahrain-headquartered private equity house Investcorp from Livingbridge for an undisclosed sum. It is Investcorp’s first foray into the legal sector. Livingbridge acquired the divorce-focused firm in 2017, after which it went on a huge expansion drive, opening more than 50 new offices across the UK […]
One of A&O Shearman’s recently hired lateral partners has resigned following a drink-driving conviction. Months since joining the newly merged firm, structured finance partner John Goldfinch has left A&O Shearman in response to being stopped by police in April. According to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), Goldfinch pled guilty to drink driving at Southampton Magistrates’ […]
Clyde & Co has transformed all its corporate loan facilities into sustainability-linked loans, providing a financial incentive to achieve its greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. The firm first switched its credit facility with Barclays to a sustainability-linked credit facility in May 2023, which means the interest rate changes depending on whether or not Clydes meets […]
It has been a bumper year for the UK’s top 100 law firms, with 44 posting double-digit growth – the highest since before the global financial crisis. A further four firms (Macfarlanes, TLT, Weightmans and Birketts) increased revenue despite a truncated year due to the Government’s basis period reforms. And if we take the five-year […]
DAC Beachcroft (DACB) has launched its second office in Asia Pacific. DACB will form an association with the newly-created CK Lee & Co, a Hong Kong firm that will ensure DACB’s clients can access legal advice internationally and in Hong Kong. The firm will be led by Kelvin Lee who was previously a partner at […]